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The New Jersey Credit Union League announced Friday that Greg Michlig, CUES senior director of member relations, has been named the president/CEO. Michlig will join the league on May 20, replacing former president/CEO Paul Gentile, who left the league at year-end 2012 to take an executive vice president position at CUNA. Tom Griffiths, retired president of the Iowa Credit Union, has been acting as temporary CEO of the New Jersey League since the beginning of this year.
Michlig began his credit union career at CUES, working at the professional development firm from 1995 to 1999. He left to work for Pemco Technology Services as a senior account executive, but returned to CUES in 2008. "Greg is widely known in the industry and has a long list of associates throughout the country, which will help him to continue to move the league forward as a respected resource," said NJCUL Chairman Lou Vetere in a release.
"He has a proven track record of initiating and cultivating relationships that will serve him well as he meets with our credit union leadership," Vetere said. "He is a strong believer in communicating with members and understanding their needs so that the league can provide the services necessary to help our members succeed. He also has a strong track record of initiating and embracing innovation," the league chairman said.
Michlig said in the release that he looks forward to continuing to build upon the league's momentum. "It has been a great pleasure working with the league board of directors throughout this process and I am eager to begin meeting with the credit union community throughout the Garden State," Michlig said.


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If you find a peregrine on the ground, Mary Hennen has put up some information along with emergency contact numbers for the Chicago region on the FIELD MUSEUM'S PEREGRINE FALCON PAGE
For those of you not from the Chicago region, the information on what to do when you find a downed peregrine is still valuable, even if the numbers are not. It is highly probable your own area has monitors. My suggestion would be to try wildlife rescue organizations or rehabbers, Animal Control and/or any zoo or natural history museum type place in the area.
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Early-afternoon games:
Not-so-dirty Birds: Amazingly, for the second straight week, the Falcons were involved in winning the Best Game of the Week. And, though I didn't think it was possible, Mike Vick was even BETTER this week than last week.
Can we all agree that if you just saw the stats and didn't know the player's name was "Reggie Bush," you'd say that – as a No. 2 overall pick -- he's been more dud than stud. (In fact, he's miles behind even being the best rookie on his own team! That would be Marques Colston.)
The Vince Young Era is in full effect. 7/15 for 87 yards passing? Who cares? How about those zero INTs? And how about that 10 yards-per-carry average, complete with a rushingTD? He did just enough to win the game, and that's all that matters.
Two words: L. J. Uh, were people really wondering if Larry Johnson was worth the preseason Fantasy hype?
Someone needs to explain the Jags. Someone needs to explain the Eagles. They get together and play and they both remain mystifying. Why do I get the feeling this is the one great game a year that Fred Taylor uses to keep tantalizing everyone?
The Giants' D is very very good. I'm not saying that Bruce Gradkowski was supposed to pick them apart, but New York totally neutered the Bucs.
It's a banner day, as the pride of Jewish fans everywhere – Texans backup QB Sage "Chosen One" Rosenfels – came off the bench to throw 3 TDs. Even in a loss, it's progress.
Apparently, Rex Grossman has excised whatever fart had been lodged in his brain during the Monday Night debacle at Arizona.
Steve McNair makes the Ravens a playoff team. I'm back to touting his "MVP" worthiness. I'm not saying he IS MVP, but you certainly can't deny the affect he has on the team when he's playing.
The Cardinals are bad... How bad are they? The Cardinals are SO bad... that they make the PACKERS look good.
Late-Afternoon Games:
Shawne Merriman: 3 sacks. Think he's playing with much motivation, knowing he might be out four games in the future? (Meanwhile, Tomlinson hit the 8,000-yard mark – in his 6th season – and tied Emmitt as the 2nd-fastest player ever to 90 TDs. Sick.)
The Colts became the first team to start 7-0 in back-to-back seasons since the Packers in 1930, but let's be honest: That doesn't mean jack if they don't win the Super Bowl. That's why the game's far more important milestone was Adam V. kicking the game-winning FG. Sign of things to come down the road... when it REALLY counts?
You have my sympathy, Jets fans: I'd be upset too if I lost to the Browns. That it happened on a controversial play is kind of beside the point. (Although it begs the question why officials' "judgment calls" aren't reviewable. Totally ludicrous.)
Finally, let's make it VERY clear: Playing Ben Roethlisberger cost the Steelers the game. He threw for 301 yards and 1 TD, but it would have been 426 yards and 3 TDs if you count the two INT-TDs he threw. It's very likely this was the final nail in the Steelers' "title-defense"; the season isn't even halfway over and they are as good as done.


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Saturday, December 23, 2006
38 Comments:
- Suzanne said...
Nothing like a little Hasselhoff to make the season bright! Happy holidays to you, too.
- owlhaven said...
Merry Christmas from the Owlhaven!
Mary, mom to many
- said...
Well. THAT ought to give me nightmares. Thanks a lot.
- said...
I'm gonna have nightmares about that pic. And then I won't be able to sleep. And then Santa won't come. And it's all your fault!
Merry Christmas.
- Jenifer said...
Well, Happy Christmahaunakwanzakuh anyways!
- said...
Gah! Is that supposed to be his sexy face?
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
- Lara said...
happy christmas, her bad family! :)
- Sandra said...
Happy Non-denominational holiday to Her Bad Mother and Father and sweet Wonderbaby!!!
- liz said...
I love the Hasslehoff! I received the same greeting last night from a friend in Dubai...and nearly snarfed my wind. The look on his face is just so...so earnest. With the candle and the gift. Bwahaha!
And a happy non-denominational holiday from our family to yours.
- Scribbit said...
Yea, I think I saw that new term in Wikipedia, Hasselhofian. :) Great picture.
- metro mama said...
Happy holidays!
- motherbumper said...
If the Hoff' tells me to have a wonderful fill-in-the-blank celebration then I most certainly will. Safe travels, Merry Christmas and here's to 2007 (I'm raising a Guinness to clink glasses with ya').
- said...
Merry Christmas and happy new year! See you in 2007 (yikes!)
- Lady M said...
That looks like a lot of airbrushing.
Happy Holidays to you and the family!
- said...
Happy Holidays to you and your family!
- crazymumma said...
You know that my Trans Am is really Kitt? And Mr Crazymumma is really David Knight?
- said...
have a great trip. enjoy!
- PunditMom said...
Happy holidays! And thanks for the Hasselhoff moment!
- said...
Happy Holidays you hasselhoffmeister!
Thank you for the Hoff in all his glory!
Have a wonderful trip and a wonderful holiday with family and love...
- ms blue said...
Have a holly jolly Hoff'ing good time! I was hoping you would share this holiday moment.
- Kyla said...
Merry Christmas to you and yours, HBM.
If a hairy chested middle aged man (possibly in a speedo) comes to your house and throws you in the back of his Trans Am, don't worry...its the Hoff and I told him I wanted you for Christmas. *lol*
- Damselfly said...
Happy holidays!
- said...
Feliz Navidad...Happy Holidays and a great New Year.
Have a great time out West and say hi to the snow for us.
- Cristina said...
We are on the same wavelength. Check out my latest blog post!
I had a hard time deciding between picking the picture you posted here or the one I posted.
Happy holidays to you and your family!
- Run ANC said...
Holy cow, that's a HI-larious picture! I was all set up for a WonderBaby photo, and had to look twice to make sure I had really seen Knight Rider. You're too funny!
Hope you have a great holiday!
- Laural Dawn said...
You just have to love him. That's way too funny. He looks like he is trying to be Michael Landon!
Have a very Merry Christmas.
- said...
Safe travels, HBM
- Kate said...
What a scary image - David Hasselhoff knocking on my window...
Happy Holidays, bad mother. Thanks for letting me comment on your funtastic blog and giving me great laughs!
- Annie, The Evil Queen said...
Okay, dude, that picture is totally creepy. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday and uneventful travels.
- said...
This is so delightful I keep coming back to it with maniacal glee.
I just don't get enough HOFF in my life.
- said...
Have a nice time!
- tracey clark said...
Oh dear god, he's like a Peeping Tom, um, er, David. I think I might have nightmares.
Happy travels and holiday wishes to you.
- Mocha said...
The Hoff scares me. I'm going to be sick.
Unless you think it might be that leftover frosting we put in a cup and then put in the fridge that I just had a spoonful of, in which case.... now I'll have nightmares about The Hoff covered in frosting.
That's just icky.
You, however, are sweeter than my frosting in a cup. (Do you see this on a t-shirt for a HerBadMother/MochaMomma combination thingie? Me, too!)
- ewe are here said...
If I have bad dreams of Hasselhoff peering into my windows, you're going to be in a lot of trouble!
Hope you have a great trip.
- Pendullum said...
Nothing like a Hasslehoff Christmas...
I remember as a kid, a mother of a friend of mine, would force us to watch in in a soap opera called Young and The Restless.
She was trying to give us a Hasslehoff education...
Ohhh, to be yourng a foolish!
and Hasselhoff free....
- said...
Holy crap. The Hoff is everywhere.
- said...
Wow....that is an interesting picture!!
- said...
Hope you're having a good holiday!
Yes, well-wishes, despite a creepy Hasselhoff pic that is now sure to give me nightmares...thx.
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One Of World's Strongest Storms Blasts Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces. But the nation appeared to avoid a major disaster because the rapidly moving typhoon blew away before wreaking more damage, officials said.
Typhoon Haiyan raced across a string of islands from east to west — Samar, Leyte, Cebu and Panay — and lashed beach communities. Nearly 750,000 people were forced to flee their homes.
Weather officials said Haiyan had sustained winds of 147 mph with gusts of 170 mph when it made landfall. By those measurements, Haiyan would be comparable to a strong Category 4 hurricane in the U.S., knocking on the door of the top category, a 5.
Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are the same thing. They are just called different names in different parts of the world.
Because of cut-off communications in the Philippines, it was impossible to know the full extent of casualties and damage. At least two people were electrocuted in storm-related accidents, one person was killed by a fallen tree and another was struck by lightning, official reports said.
Southern Leyte Gov. Roger Mercado said the typhoon triggered landslides that blocked roads, uprooted trees and ripped roofs off houses around his residence.
The dense clouds and heavy rains made the day seem almost as dark as night, he said.
"When you're faced with such a scenario, you can only pray, and pray and pray," Mercado told The Associated Press by telephone, adding that mayors in the province had not called in to report any major damage.
"I hope that means they were spared and not the other way around," he said. "My worst fear is there will be massive loss of lives and property."
Eduardo del Rosario, head of the disaster response agency, said a powerful typhoon that also hit the central Philippines in 1990 killed 508 people and left 246 missing, but this time authorities had ordered pre-emptive evacuation and other measures to minimize casualties.
He said the speed at which the typhoon sliced through the central islands — 25 mph — helped prevent its 375-mile band of rain clouds from dumping enough of their load to overflow waterways. Flooding from heavy rains is often the main cause of deaths from typhoons.
"It has helped that the typhoon blew very fast in terms of preventing lots of casualties," regional military commander Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda said. He said the massive evacuation of villagers before the storm also saved many lives.
The Philippines, which is hit by about 20 typhoons and storms a year, has in recent years become more serious about preparations to reduce deaths. Public service announcements are frequent, as are warnings by the president and high-ranking officials that are regularly carried on radio and TV and social networking sites.
Provincial governors and mayors have taken a hands-on approach during crises, supervising evacuations, inspecting shelters and efforts to stockpile food and relief supplies.
President Benigno Aquino III assured the public of war-like preparations, with three C-130 air force cargo planes and 32 military helicopters and planes on standby, along with 20 navy ships.
Among the evacuees were thousands of residents of Bohol who had been camped in tents and other makeshift shelters since a magnitude-7.2 earthquake hit the island province last month.
Relief workers said they were struggling to find ways to deliver food and other supplies, with roads blocked by landslides and fallen trees.
The storm "unleashed fierce winds and harsh rains that uprooted big trees and toppled electric poles and power lines," said Aaron Aspi, a spokesman for World Vision in Bohol.
From Samar, the typhoon battered Leyte, then the northern part of Cebu and nearby islands before lashing Panay — islands with some of the best beach resorts in the Philippines.
As of 8 p.m., the typhoon was north of Palawan province, 200 miles southwest of Manila, and had weakened a bit with sustained winds of 134 mph.
Forecasters said the storm was expected to move out of the country and into the South China Sea on Saturday morning, where it was likely to pick up renewed strength on its way toward Vietnam.
Dozens of flights in the central and southern Philippines were canceled. A storm surge estimated at 15 feet damaged a seaside airport in Leyte's Tacloban city. Airport workers moved to the tower and were safe but no other details had been reported because communications were cut by the typhoon, aviation official John Andrews said.
"They've been incommunicado. The last message we got from them was that the airport was ruined," Andrews said.
Andrews said the typhoon also damaged the airport in Kalibo town in Aklan.
World weather experts are calling Hiayan one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record at the time it hit land, but not quite the windiest. There are disputes over just how strong it is because of differences in the way storms are measured.
"In terms of the world I don't think it's the strongest," said Taoyang Peng, a tropical cyclone scientist at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva. But he added that "it is one of the strongest typhoons to make landfall" and probably the strongest to hit the Philippines.
The U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center put Haiyan's sustained winds at 196 mph just minutes before it made landfall Thursday, which would be a world record. However, officials in Tokyo and the Philippines but the wind speed at about 147 mph.
Peng said his group considers Tokyo the authority in this case because it's the closest regional center to the storm.
The best way to measure a storm is with radar from a plane flying in and out of it. That's not done in Asia, where they use satellite imagery and ground measurements instead.
Not until meteorologists can conduct a deep investigation will scientists know just how strong Haiyan actually was, but it will easily be one of the strongest on record, former U.S. National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield told the AP on Friday.
Mayfield described looking at radar images of Haiyan, saying, "it has got to weaken, it has got to weaken" — and yet it didn't.
Associated Press writers Jim Gomez in Manila and Seth Borenstein and Matt Small in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.


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NFL players: Three out of four own guns
- Most players say Jovan Belcher murder-suicide will not change attitudes"I was always shocked at the number," says former coach Tony Dungy of gun ownershipMany cite 2007 death of Sean Taylor from home invasion as motivation for buying guns
Former NFL running back Thomas Jones was always around guns, long before he became a football-carrying member of that unofficial gun club within the National Football League.
As a kid, he and his buddies fired guns in the woods in Big Stone Gap, Va. They'd shoot bottles and go hunting.
His dad had guns.
Jones bought his first gun his senior year at the University of Virginia, and, as a rookie with the Arizona Cardinals a dozen years ago, he learned quickly that guns were an ingrained part of the NFL culture.
"Most guys when they first come into the league is when they first start to realize they need protection," Jones says. "Because money brings a lot of positive things. But most of the time, it brings more negative things. People don't like you for what you have, for who you are. They don't like you for what you represent. And people will go to any length to take what you have or harm you in some way just because they don't have what you have. If you don't have a firearm to protect you from situations and God forbid something happens to you, you wish you would have a firearm."
Jones, who retired last season with the Kansas City Chiefs after 12 years in the league, was a big brother to young linebacker Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend, and then himself, last Saturday.
Yet less than a week removed from the tragic shootings in Kansas City, NFL players aren't ready to give any ground on their belief that carrying guns is not only a right but, in their world, a necessity. Indeed, numerous players told USA TODAY Sports that in their estimation, roughly three-quarters of NFL players owned guns, compared with 40% to 45% of households in the general population, according to the National Rifle Association.
Though no statistics on NFL gun ownership exist, and league spokesman Greg Aiello called the percentage estimates "a wild guess," even former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy — widely viewed, even now, as the moral compass of the NFL — says the number of players who armed themselves during his tenure "shocked" him.
When Dungy, now an NBC analyst, was coaching the Colts, he'd always ask at the first team meeting of the year, "How many of you guys have guns?" Then he would tell the players that they needed to register their weapons in Indiana.
"I was always shocked at the number of guys who raised their hand. ... That was kind of eye-opening to me. ... (But) it's just a fact of life. These guys had them. ... I think so many of these young guys have been around guns and have seen guns, and they just feel that's part of the landscape for them growing up."
Like Jones, Belcher owned guns. But Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, the mother of their three-month-old daughter, and then killed himself with a different gun in front of his coach and general manager in the parking lot of Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.
"I'm not ... trying to tell guys in the league they need to purchase firearms," Jones says. "I'm just saying to be realistic about our lifestyle."
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer for the NRA, dismisses any notion that guns are to blame for the tragedy, or that NFL players are in some way different.
"It's not a culture of athletes," he says. "It is particular behavior by particular individuals that is no different from the rest of society. We've got to stop making excuses. A murderer is a murderer."
Lessons of Taylor's death
According to numerous players, it's not a secret that the NFL is loaded with firearms. One of the reasons routinely mentioned is protection, and one of the incidents players often cite is the death of Sean Taylor, a Washington Redskins safety who was killed in a home invasion in Miami in 2007. He was 24.
Redskins kick returner Brandon Banks echoes the mantra that it's all about protection. The third-year player, who declined to say whether he owns a gun, says "70% of the NFL players have guns. Guys get them as soon as they start getting some money, when people start knowing where you live."
Players in other pro sports leagues agree with that sentiment, including in the NBA where former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone, a noted outdoorsman, once put the number of gun owners at "close to 60%."
But just as in the greater society beyond sports, gun ownership isn't only about protection. For many players and millions of Americans, guns are simply the equipment for another popular sport: hunting.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger calls himself "a huge hunter" and says he owns rifles, shotguns and handguns. He estimates the percentage of NFL players who own guns at "over 75%-80%."
Roethlisberger's teammate, James Harrison, is a gun collector and one of the most avid gun advocates in sports. Harrison reacted to the Belcher story with sadness, but the all-pro linebacker is unapologetic about his passion for firearms.
"It has nothing to do with the guns," Harrison says. "Somebody goes out and kills somebody with a knife; you going to blame the knife? It's the person who did it who's responsible."
Redskins wide receiver Josh Morgan no longer owns a gun. But he says he grew up in Washington, D.C., carrying unregistered handguns. He gave up guns "after one of my best friends got killed. That's when I had to stop. When you see so many people get killed and you witness so many deaths and go to so many funerals before you leave high school — and you've got 12, 13, 14 friends die from murder or get stabbed — you get tired of going to funerals. You get tired of crying."
Morgan says he knows a lot of players who own guns for protection, and he defends their right, even as he chooses not to exercise his.
"Some people just have nothing to lose," he says. "When you've got people like that, you've got no choice but to protect yourself and protect your family."
The NFL's Aiello says the league educates players about guns and weapons every year. Each team conducts an annual mandatory preseason meeting with NFL security, club security and local law enforcement at which gun laws are reviewed and explained. At this meeting, NFL employees are urged not to own guns, according to Aiello.
Some players have followed that advice.
"I do not own a gun," says Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen. "It's something my wife and I have discussed. We (the team) are away a lot, so it gives me some peace of mind knowing she could protect herself (if she did have a gun). It also makes me nervous because there are a lot of issues with gun safety."
Paulsen, who puts the league gun ownership number at "70-80%," realizes that he's "definitely in the minority."
But Troy Vincent, the NFL vice president of player engagement who played from 1992-2006, disputes that the league has a gun culture, or that players commonly own and collect guns.
"No. No. I've never. … You'll hear people say, 80%-90%, 20%. How do you know that? We don't ask that question. That's personal information. ... (But) we're not naive by any stretch of the imagination."
While echoing Aiello's comments that the league does all it can to educate players, Vincent shed tears and became emotional when asked about the Belcher tragedy.
"A young lady lost her life, and it didn't have to be that way."
Family and friends said goodbye to Kasandra Perkins, 22, at a funeral Thursday in Blue Ridge, Texas.
Too eager to arm?
Because Belcher was a gun owner, a person in his home would have been three times more likely to be involved in a homicide, and five times more likely to have killed himself, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
If that Saturday in Kansas City were an average day in America, 32 people were slain with guns and another 54 people were killed by guns in suicides or accidents, according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. More than 31,000 people in the USA die in gun-related incidents each year. This year, one of those deaths was the stunning suicide of recently retired NFL superstar linebacker Junior Seau, who had acquired a handgun for protection but, according to his friends, hardly knew how to load it.
Whatever the reasons athletes give for gun ownership — or their Second Amendment rights to legally purchase firearms — gun safety advocates continue to be concerned about the link between guns and professional athletes. There's nothing wrong with owning a gun, they say, if the buyer is ready for gun ownership.
"You have young people with a lot of money, and there may be a quickness in a decision to buy a gun," says Dan Gross, president of the Brady Center. "There's a kind of social norm that exists in certain professional sports around ownership of a gun. It's kind of encouraged. And I think there's a tendency among professional athletes not to look into the right equation in terms of risks versus benefits."
Not true, says the NRA's LaPierre, who blames the premise of a gun culture in the NFL on the media and anti-gun groups.
"You've got good Americans who love to play sports, who are disciplined, who are responsible, and they're no different from any other Americans," he says. "Owning guns is a mainstream part of American culture, and it's growing every day."
Gross says he and his organization aren't trying to ban guns. They seek education and awareness, and they urge potential gun owners to pause and consider that — statistically speaking — placing themselves around guns increases their risks.
"What we saw with Belcher and Kasandra Perkins was a very clear manifestation of those risks, as was Junior Seau," Gross says.
LaPierre counters: "The one thing missing in that equation is that woman owning a gun so she could have saved her life from that murderer."
Other sports leagues
Just as with the NFL, other pro sports leagues have had their share of gun controversies.
In December 2009, Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton violated NBA rules when they had unloaded guns in the Washington Wizards' team locker room. Both were suspended for the remainder of the season. But gun ownership — for sport and protection — remains vibrant.
Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, now a commentator on TNT, says, "Most of the guys I played with over the years always had protection. We've had some players get mugged going home late at night, coming off a road trip or leaving nightclubs. But I've never heard of a situation like (the Belcher shootings) where everything went crazy."
Barkley, too, says that a tragic aberration like what happened in Kansas City doesn't diminish his right to own a weapon: Having a gun "is a personal choice. It's my personal choice, and I'm not going to change it. I don't care what anybody says."
NBA veteran and Los Angeles Clippers star Lamar Odom doesn't own a gun, even though he was once held up at gunpoint.
"I understand there are mixed feelings and mixed emotions about it," he says. "I think it's our right to be able to protect our homes, but I just don't feel the need."
Major League Baseball has long been associated with a hunting culture. This week, Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum revealed that former teammate Robin Yount accidentally shot him in the right ear on a recent quail hunt. And San Diego Padres general manager Josh Byrnes spoke out on guns after one of his pitchers, Andrew Cashner, lacerated a tendon in his right thumb with a knife after a deer hunt this offseason.
"As a GM, I am concerned," Byrnes said Thursday, while noting that he supports gun control. "We can control things on the job, but away from it, we hope they make the right decisions."
But Atlanta Braves general manager Frank Wren argues that hunting lends itself to experience with guns.
"What's different is that the hunting culture for the most part are the most gun-savvy and the most careful and cautious of any group of gun owners," says Wren. "And we're also not talking about handguns. That's a whole other class that we don't see."
Wren has plenty of experience on his teams with avid hunters, among them recently retired star Chipper Jones and former Braves first baseman Adam Laroche. Wren recalls them often setting up targets under the stadium where the grounds crew stores sand and practicing with bows and arrows. But he says in his 25 years with several franchises, he's never come across issues with players and guns. He says part of that stems from many players coming from Sun Belt states, where guns are often introduced in childhood.
"The first thing you do as a kid in the South is go take a gun safety course," Wren says.
Saving lives, or taking lives?
But just a day after the Chiefs gathered at Belcher's memorial service, players question whether the murder-suicide will have any lasting impact on the league.
Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress, infamous for accidentally shooting himself in a New York City nightclub in 2008, called the Belcher shootings "very, very unfortunate" but isn't sure the tragedy will be a lasting lesson to a gun-heavy league.
"It will for a little while," says Burress, who served 20 months in prison because he was carrying the gun illegally. "But over time something else will happen and we'll be having the same discussion then. Things like this happen to people every day. It just happened to be Jovan, somebody that we knew."
Steelers safety and player representative Ryan Clark doesn't own a gun in a locker room where his quarterback estimates that most of his teammates do. He has twice seen gun-related tragedies up close. Clark's freshman year at LSU in 1999, a close friend killed himself with a shotgun blast to the face.
"Everybody sat around the next day when we found out, wondering what could we have done different. What could we have said to him? You don't see the signs. We never found out why," Clark says.
He was also a teammate and friend of the Redskins' Taylor, whom he played with from 2004-05 before joining Steelers in 2006. Taylor armed himself with a machete during the home invasion in which he was shot dead.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
How can you love baseball and hate the All Star Game?
Perhaps no one embodies the lunacy of complaining about the MLB All Star Game better than the Fan 590's Bob McCown, who hates the game for so many different reasons that his complaints often contradict one another. The players who should play, he posits, are the same players every year because they are the stars and everyone wants to see Willie Mays. But at the same time, he complains that the fans always get the voting wrong when choosing the starters because they are a bunch of dumbasses who pick players based on reputation. Bobcat also complains about the fact that the game "doesn't mean anything anymore", then whines about the fact that it decides home field advantage.
McCown sucks and blows so hard on this topic simultaneously that it's a wonder that his mic doesn't explode from some sort of feedback loop. He even dragged the increasingly-unreliable Keith Law into the mix last week, getting KLaw to crap all over the game while also adding with pride that he hasn't watched it in years.
Really? Isn't this exactly the sort of know-it-all, affectedly weary, axiomatic thinking that the new generation of baseball analysts were supposed to blow out of the water? Did Law have to start hating the game as soon as he received his BBWAA card?
Really, kids: Why so serious?
The All Star Game is a spectacle. It's one that is too slickly produced, and features too much of Joe Buck's voice, but ultimately, the component parts are still there. The player introductions, where even in your team's worst season, you'll get to see one guy there. The players wearing their respective uniforms, and not some ugly-ass design from Central Marketing. The vote on the starters, and announcement of the bench players, and the naming of the starting pitchers, and all of the ensuing debate.
And jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick: When did we all get so goddamned sanctimonious about who gets named to the team? Why is it that when one guy gets in ahead of someone else, it suddenly becomes a debate about the entire framework around the game and how it's in disarray, and how we need completely new systems to make sure that one guy gets in and one guy doesn't. There are about 60 other players in the game who deserve to be there, and who we'll be pleased to see get into the game at some point. Why can't that be the emphasis? Why can't the debate take on more of a spirit of convivial discussion rather than the childish, stubborn, intractable gainsaying?
(Can we just say: We're looking forward to seeing Cory Hart get into the game. Just because.)
So Omar Infante got into the game. That's a shame, although his making the squad helps to underline the fact that there are still many in baseball who can look at a lucky slap hitter with no power and no speed and say "Hey! .311 batting average! All Star!"
(Is it worth mentioning that Dave Concepcion, the MVP of the ASG in Montreal in 1982, had a first half OPS under .700 that year?)
Whenever people start talking shit about the All Star Game, we start to think back on the 1983 edition in Comiskey Park. That game that featured Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Al Oliver and Gary Carter in the starting lineup versus Dave Stieb. It featured Mario Soto's brilliantly white shoes, which he couldn't wear normally because of Marge Schott's edict that Reds only wear boring black cleats.
It featured the first grand slam in All Star Game history, with Fred Lynn teeing off on Atlee Hammaker. It featured starters like George Brett, Rod Carew, Dale Murphy and Robin Yount, who would become favorites of ours throughout our early years of baseball fandom. Rickey Henderson subbing in for Carl Yastrzemski. Dan Quisenberry closing the game out with his way-cool submarine delivery. How cool is that?
That one game had a lot to do with your faithful blogger becoming the sort of baseball fan he is. As such, it's more offensive to us to think that people have forgotten that sort of fun than it is to gripe over one first baseman getting snubbed over another.
28 comments:
- dlbrows said...
Cosigning every last sentence.
- July 5, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- dlbrows said...
KLaw also had a "means nothing" reaction to Drabek's no-hitter. Of course it doesn't mean this kid is for sure an ace in the bigs, or even gets to the bigs for that matter. EVERYONE FUCKING GETS THAT. It's fun, though. It's neat. It makes you smile when you watch the video (http://youtu.be/-gYlMwo6jOs). And if that isn't your first reaction than you're a boring old stiff.
- July 5, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Great post, and great picture. Uniforms were a lot tighter back in the day, weren't they?
As with Hall of Fame selections every year, I think we've all become used to the outrage surrounding the All-Star game. Way to call people, especially Keith Law, out on it. While I was too young to experience the '83 All-Star game, it was fun to read about what that particular game meant to you, and how it molded you into the baseball fan you are today.
I enjoy the All-Star games, too. Will never forget when Toronto hosted the event, or when Cal Ripken was ordered back to shortstop in his final appearance at the classic. And you're right: it has gotten too serious.
I was feeling in the mood to bitch about the Infante selection this morning, after learning that Manuel hand-picked him. Then I read that upon getting a call from his GM, Infante originally thought he'd been traded. Once he was told he was off to Anaheim, he jumped around for joy with his family. And you know what? That's fantastic. It's something the Infante family will cherish forever. Life's too short. I made my beer league hockey all-star game once, and I won't lie, it felt good. So insignificant, but it was fun to be there. I can't imagine what will be going through Infante's mind when he's announced as an All-Star.
Apologies on the long-winded comment. I won't be able to watch this year's game, and that saddens me, because I'd have loved to see Wells announced. It will be fantastic, surely. That's my guy.
ALL THAT being said, I'm going to vote for Joey Votto in the coming days.
- July 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- Ty said...
Awesome. I couldn't possibly agree more. It seems like every year in the ASG there's at least a few "HOLY COW!" moments, and I'll be the first to admit how cool it feels to see Mariano Rivera coming on to close out a game for the team I'm actually cheering for once a year. Throw in a chance to see a few Jays show off for the rest of the baseball world, and it's a welcome break from the regular season.
Remember back in 2006 when Vernon nailed a runner at the plate with a perfect throw from center field, setting up a late-inning comeback win for the AL with Troy Glaus scoring the go-ahead run? That was fucking awesome.
- July 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- Ty said...
Also, with each passing year I'm becoming more and more convinced that Keith Law actually hates baseball. Unfiltered cynicism is such a horseshit trait to build your persona around.
- July 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
And, at the risk of sounding like I'm contradicting myself here, I'd also note that once they get between the lines, no one dogs the All Star Game. It's way serious.
You might disagree with who was chosen, but for the most part, you're seeing the best against the best for most of the game.
- July 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- LJ said...
Agreed, 100%. I liked Joe Posnanski's observation that most of the complaints arise out of the fact that everyone has different ideas of what the ASG is supposed to be, and MLB has little choice but to try to do a little bit of everything. It seems to piss people off when they can only get things 20-50% of their way, and not 100%.
- July 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- Keith Law said...
I can tell you where I was when Fred Lynn hit that home run. That was a great game to watch as a young (10 years old) fan.
But today's ASG doesn't resemble the old one, with the giant rosters, the everybody-has-to-play mentality, and the resulting short appearances for marquee names. Keeping the starters in the game longer, with a smaller bench and fewer than 13 pitchers, would make it a much better game for the fans.
I said on that appearance with McCown that I love the Futures Game, which is an undercovered event as part of All-Star Weekend. The ASG itself, to me, is only a little better than the Home Run Derby, although I don't watch either. That Tuesday was usually a day for me to hit the Cape Cod League, but this year I'm rolling off a redeye that morning so it'll be a day for me to do things like drink coffee.
Ty, you can't be even 10% serious with that remark. Criticism isn't the same as cynicism, for one thing, and for another, I think all the prospects I've talked up one way or another is strong evidence of how much I love baseball.
- July 5, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Keith Law said...
dlbrows: Nice misquote. My actual response to a request for "thoughts" on the no-hitter: "Great for the kid, but if you're asking for significance, there is none."
- July 5, 2010 at 3:51 PM
I agree with K-Law, he isn't that cranky or cynical. I would say he only measure in at around 0.4 Wilners.
- July 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- William J. Tasker said...
Wow. A KLaw response on a Tao of Steib post. Way to go and cool.
But I disagree with him. I've been watching All Star games every year for almost fifty years. They are always the same. Lots of changes, lots of guys getting in games. Some of the old stars did stay in the game longer because there was no DH and the pitcher's spot allowed a lesser god to pinch hit. But other than that, nothing really has changed. And do you really want to miss the best players in baseball (except for a few missing due to selection errors) all collected in one place?
WTG, Tao. Great post.
- July 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Beauty post, dude! Loved it. I especially like that you took some much-deserved shots at KLaw. That guy is a douche bag who makes it more painfully obvious with every appearance that he just doesn't want to say a single positive thing about the organization that saw no reason to keep him. They might as well call him up to expound on some girl in high school who wouldn't give him a hand-job.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Tao's got talent. Too bad he's stuck on a desk at the Daily Planet playing second fiddle to some chick named Lois and constantly having to put up with that closet case assistant, Jimmy.
- July 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM
- SP said...
Re: KLaw's Cynicism (actual name of a team in Tao's roto league), no one has the right to claim you don't love the game but it's obvious you're just a cynical personal in general. Snark is a spice that should be used sparingly, after which it becomes overwhelming. Your Twitter feed, chats, and radio appearances are filled with borderline rude discourse and cynicism. I remember a radio appearance you did for a Philly station about Howard's contract. You were arguing and talking down to a guy who wasn't even taking a side (btw, I agreed with your points). That type of stuff gets tiring and cringe-inducing fast.
- July 5, 2010 at 6:29 PM
- SP said...
P.S. What Tao said.
- July 5, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- Darren Priest said...
In any sport, but especially baseball, assuming the worst is going to make you right most of the time. Even Manny in 2004 "only" hit a HR every 13 ABs. I could have said, "I guarantee Manny will never hit a home run this at-bat" and I would have been right over 94% of the time. I would probably also have a "B" shaped scar in the back of my head.
Going on radio to shit on the Jays is nothing to be proud of. Who are the Jays' most prominent cheerleaders? They are few and far between it seems.
- July 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Drew said...
Darren I think you're taking KLaw's criticism of the Jays a little personally. \
He "shits on" every team and ever move he doesn't agree with. The fans of every team think he has it out for them and all the their players.
Remember, he's in show business more than anything.
- July 5, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Yeah, I would plead guilty to that charge, Drew. I realize Klaw is probably a nice enough guy and nobody is going to hire an analyst to say, "Well, ya never know..."
It just seems like since 1993-ish the Jays are always struggling with attendance and most of the national voices on the issue can't wait to dance on their grave. People can shit all over the Leafs because they are firmly entrenched and will never struggle with attendance or whispers of them re-locating. The Jays are a different matter. Sometimes I wish the national sports media would light a proverbial candle instead of constantly cursing the darkness.
Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to put on Antony and the Johnsons and hang myself in the attic.
- July 5, 2010 at 8:32 PM
- Ty said...
Re: Keith Law (real? fake? either way...):
No, I wasn't being serious about you hating baseball -- that's obviously not even close to the truth -- but I'm well aware of the difference between cynicism and criticism, and I meant it when I referred to the former. I generally find your criticism to be well-founded, but it's a bit grating to listen to someone who automatically assumes everybody else is an idiot (even if that is the case more often than not). To be specific, I was mostly referring to the tendency to look down upon those who still enjoy the game as fans -- especially, God forbid, fans of any one particular team -- with the apparent assumption that doing so somehow precludes one from being well-informed or intelligent. I'm not sure if that's the intended message or attitude, but that's how it all comes across to me.
- July 6, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Mario Soto's cleats mark the only time that Marge Schott favoured something black over something white.
- July 6, 2010 at 1:09 AM
I started watching baseball in 1983, with a great deal of my focus on collecting stickers after every Little League Game (I swear I still have extra Claudell Washington ones if anyone wants to trade). The next year I got my first Bill James and I was good to go.
Was Mario Soto the most underrated pitcher in the 1980s? Those were some crap Reds teams he was on and sadly he was done by the time the team as good.
Good on KLaw for coming on here and defending himself. I wish other of his ilk would do the same.
With the added confidence that Omar Infante now has, he's going to own the second half of the season.
- July 6, 2010 at 1:14 AM
There is not NO significance to a AA no-hitter. I agree that there is far less than either a no-hitter in the bigs or a full season of quality pitching (which is pretty obvious) but apart from not walking those guys what more could he have done? If that's not significant, what is???
- July 6, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Drew said...
I think, in KLaw's defense, he meant the no-hitter had no significance on his status as a prospect nor does it mean he's any more ready for the show than he was before.
It means something to Drabek has a life event, but it doesn't alter his professional perception or career arc.
Note: I'm an apologist.
- July 6, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- dlbrows said...
Sorry Keith, I'm not an ESPN Insider so I didn't get to see your full quote on the no-no.
- July 6, 2010 at 12:44 PM
- Ty said...
Drew, even then, I don't buy the idea that a guy completely dominating his peers at AA has no significance on his development. It doesn't mean he'll automatically be an ace someday, but it does mean that he's doing a pretty good job right now.
- July 6, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Sorry, Ack. I didn't mean to...what I mean is, well, I don't mean you're Lois. I guess that just leaves this guy.
- July 6, 2010 at 2:48 PM
McCown is overly fond of referring to the Pete Rose-Ray Fosse collision, to the point where I wonder if he thinks it's the only valid highlight in the entire history of the All-Star Game. Or if it's the only thing he chooses to remember.
I'd prefer it if he didn't put so much emphasis on an a-hole move by an a-hole player.
Another of McCown's hobby horses: that the ASG was such a big deal in the late '50s that they decided to have two of them.
He's wrong on that one. The idea was to raise money for the player pension fund. And reaction was mixed.
The second game in 1959 was played at the L.A. Coliseum. The Dodgers outdrew the rest of the National League by about 80 percent. But for this showcase event, in a stadium that could hold upwards of 90,000, only 55,000 went to the ASG.
The next year, the second game was played at Yankee Stadium, with the added attraction of Willie Mays playing in New York for the first time since 1957. That one drew 38,000 customers.
Counter to McCown's view, fan interest might actually have taken a hit in that era because of (a) too much of a good thing and (b) the commissioner taking the vote away from fans after the Cincinnati fiasco in '57.
- July 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Keith Law is such a little bitch. But he has gorgeous eyebrows and the palate of a Queen. Many nights I have dreamed about dinner with Keith at Sotto Sotto followed by shots of tequila off J.P Ricciardi's hairy chest.
- July 8, 2010 at 4:08 PM
I imagine this post would have been completely different if one of the "deserving" Blue Jays hadn't made the All Star team.
- July 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM


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40th president (1981-1989)
Background/early life
• Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois and attended Eureka College near Peoria. After graduating he became a radio sports announcer, and in 1937 he won a movie contract in Hollywood. In the '30s, '40s and '50s he appeared in 53 films.
• As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism.
• In 1966 he was elected governor of California by a margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.
• Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. Voters troubled by inflation and by the yearlong confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office.
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• Reagan's presidency saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving "peace through strength" abroad. At the end of his two terms in office, Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism."
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• Sixty nine days after taking office, Reagan was shot by a would-be assassin. He left the hospital after 13 days, and no formal invocation of presidential succession took place.
• Reagan obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment and strengthen national defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and government expenditures, refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit.
• In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his administration, the nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.
• Also in 1986 Reagan was embroiled in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which arms were traded for hostages and the proceeds given to anti-communist rebels the Contras in Nicaragua.
• During his two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In dramatic meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
• Reagan declared war against international terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.
• By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he maintained the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine, he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia and Africa.
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The Situation of Decision Making
Posted by The Situationist Staff on November 6, 2008
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For the last eight years, America has had a president with an audacious approach to making decisions. "I'm a gut player. I rely on my instincts," President Bush has said repeatedly. It doesn't matter if he's making a decision about invading Iraq, the intentions of a foreign leader, or pushing ahead with Social Security reform: Bush believes in the power of his intuition.
Critics have lampooned this aspect of the Bush presidency. Comedian Stephen Colbert regularly mocks the approach with his invocations of "truthiness," or facts that are only true according to the gut instinct of the president; Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward writes in his most recent book that "Bush's instincts are almost his second religion." While Bush's supporters see him as unwavering and resolute, these critics describe a president who is reckless and impulsive, willing to ignore any information that contradicts what he's feeling.
The irony is that the eight years of the Bush administration have coincided with a growing body of scientific research demonstrating the power of human instincts, at least in certain circumstances. In fact, some studies suggest that when confronted with a complex decision – and the decisions of the president are as complex as it gets – people often do best when they rely on their gut feelings, just as Bush does.
However, it has also become clear that listening to your instincts is just a part of making good decisions. The crucial skill, scientists are now saying, is the ability to think about your own thinking, or metacognition, as it is known. Unless people vigilantly reflect on how they are making an important decision, they won't be able to properly use their instincts, or know when their gut should be ignored. Indeed, according to this emerging new vision of decision-making, the best predictor of good judgment isn't intuition or experience or intelligence. Rather, it's the willingness to engage in introspection, to cultivate what Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, calls "the art of self-overhearing."
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The emerging consensus among scientists, however, is that both approaches [going with the gut and the more cerebral style] are inherently flawed. While our instincts and emotions can be astonishingly prescient, they can also lead us to disaster. And a more deliberative style brings its own set of problems, such as losing sight of the most relevant information and even a debilitating indecisiveness.
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One of the first insights into the importance of gut instinct in decision-making came from Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California. In the early 1990s, Damasio began publishing a series of landmark papers describing the symptoms of patients who, after a brain injury, were unable to perceive or experience emotion. At the time, most scientists assumed that such a deficit would lead to more rational decisions, since the patients were free of their irrational instincts.
Damasio found the opposite: these dispassionate patients made consistently bad decisions. Some made terrible investments and ended up bankrupt; others started drinking heavily and getting into fights; most just spent hours deliberating over irrelevant details, such as where to eat lunch. According to Damasio, when people are cut off from their emotions even the most banal decisions become all but impossible.
Subsequent research, much of it taking place in the last few years, has helped explain why emotions are such an essential part of the decision-making process. Ap Dijksterhuis, a psychologist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, has demonstrated that when people are given choices with many variables – he often makes people choose between different cars and apartments – they tend to make the best decision when relying on their unconscious, which generates our inarticulate instincts. In contrast, people who consciously deliberate over which car to buy tend to fixate on extraneous facts, leading them to bad choices.
According to Dijksterhuis, the moral of this research is that people making complex decisions should analyze their options, but then stop: "go on holiday while your unconscious digests the problem," he writes. "Whatever your intuition then tells you is almost certainly going to be the best choice."
While this research has led to a new appreciation for the powers of the unconscious – it's no longer seen as a fraught, Freudian underworld – this brain system isn't perfect. . . .
Scientists are only beginning to figure out the kind of situations that are best suited for each mode of decision-making. There's some preliminary evidence, however, that simple problems – those involving a limited number of variables – are best suited for deliberate thought, so that people don't make any obvious mistakes. In contrast, complex problems seem to benefit from the processing powers of the unconscious, as long as people first take the time to carefully, deliberately assimilate all the relevant facts.
Given the distinct talents of these different types of thought – the brain is like a Swiss army knife, stuffed full of tools – scientists argue that it's imperative for powerful decision-makers to constantly reflect on their own thought process. The best decisions occur when people take the time to study their decision-making process, and not just the decision itself. In other words, don't simply focus on the alternatives – reflect on how those alternatives are being considered. The end result is decisions that are more likely to be made in the right frame of mind.
One of the best ways for a president to maintain control of the decision-making process is to surround himself with advisers willing to criticize his decisions. "Psychologists spend a lot of time focusing on individual abilities," says Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia. "But what's even more important is the type of environment that's set up around a president. A leader who encourages a diversity of viewpoints" – and Haidt argues that presidents should fill the cabinet with advisers from both parties – "is going to make much more effective decisions."
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